Tuesday, May 02, 2006

If US bothers Iran they will attack Israel

Word on the street is that Iran wants to destroy Israel. It seems that if the United States responds at all to Iran's continued development then Iran will destroy Israel. To someone out there this seems logical.

Iran will target Israel first if the United States does anything "evil", a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday.

The United States says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff with the West solved diplomatically but has refused to rule out military action.

"We have announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel," Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA.

The Islamic Republic has never recognized Israel and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map."

Dehqani said naval wargames held in the Gulf last month "carried the warning to those countries that threaten Iran, including America and the Zionist regime".

Experts said the wargames, in which Iran said it had tested new missiles and torpedoes, were a thinly veiled threat that it could disrupt vital Gulf oil shipping lanes if it was attacked.

Actually there is some logic. If the United States interrupts Iran's nuclear plans Iran will simply jump ahead in their overall plan: destroy Israel.

Iran must be stopped and I have a hunch that if you asked the people of Israel what should be done with Iran they would agree. It is too bad that so many in the United States do not understand the need to go into Iran.